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rather short, scarcely narrowed towards tip. Color cinereous. Head 

 and thorax irrorate with fulvous, the latter sparingly, the face with nu- 

 merous light dots. Basal angles of scutel fulvous. Elytra whitish, 

 sparsely and subobsoletely irrorate with brown, most distinctly so at ex- 

 treme apex; fore and middle femora indistinctly biannulate with fulvous. 

 Last ventral segment twice the length of the preceding, very slightly 

 broadly produced at the middle, with a median notch, the lateral angles 

 prominent, obtuse; portions of hind margin blackened. 



Described from a single female in the Uhler collection. It was 

 collected in Washington Territory. It is nearer to humidus and 

 nebulosus than to any other species, but differs widely from these 

 as described above. 



Phlepsius mimus n. sp. $. Length 6.5 mm. Form and size nearly of 

 texamis, somewhat more slender. Head slightly broader than thorax; 

 vertex short, very bluntly angulate, disc convex, though slightly trans- 

 versely depressed behind, broadly rounded onto the front; length at mid- 

 dle slightly less than a third of width between eyes; front broad, length 

 once and a tenth its width, twice and four-fifths the length of clypeus; 

 clypeus somewhat broader than usual at base; pronotum finely, sparsely 

 punctured on posterior three-fourths, hind margin very shallowly, angu- 

 larly emarginate; width little less than twice and one-third the length. 

 Elytra somewhat narrowed towards the apex: excepting a few in costal 

 cell, the supernumerary veins are wanting. Color pale cinereous. Face 

 finely confluently dotted with fulvous; vertex and pronotum coarsely ir- 

 rorate with fulvous. Elytra milky white, with the irrorations, except 

 sparingly along costa and apex, broken up into fine dots, something as in 

 punctiscriptus. Several small darker spots along claval commissure and 

 costa towards apex. Wings infuscate apically; fore and middle femora 

 each with one distinct brown annulus near the apex, hind tibiae with dark 

 tips. Abdomen somewhat darker above and below; some brown blotches 

 on mesopleurse. Plate large, triangular, the valves extending its length 

 beyond it; valves with numerous stout white bristles, the sides incurved 

 before the narrow, strongly divergent tips. 



Described from a single specimen from the Uhler collection, 

 taken October n at Odenton, sixteen miles southeast of Balti- 

 more. This species is nearest texanus, from which it differs in 

 coloration and structure of genitalia. Texamis is more robust 

 and darker. Its resemblance to punctiscriptus is but superficial, 

 the structure of the head widely separating it from that species. 



DOMINION OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. I am de- 

 lighted to notice that the magazine still continues to be of such hi-h 

 quality. I do not know what your arrangements are for paying for plates, 

 but figures of new species similar to the exquisite work on Plate III of 

 P'yraineis carye in the present volume would, I know, be acceptable to 

 many entomologists besides me. JAMES FLETCHER. 



